IE6 breaks explorer.exe
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Three times in the last five months I have installed IE6, then uninstalled it within a few minutes, because it breaks explorer.exe. Now I have a brand new copy of Visual Studio .NET, which refuses to run with IE5.5. Have I wasted my money? I'm not the only one who has noticed this; a search at Google Groups for "ie6 explorer.exe" gives over 400 results, mostly for this problem. X|
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Three times in the last five months I have installed IE6, then uninstalled it within a few minutes, because it breaks explorer.exe. Now I have a brand new copy of Visual Studio .NET, which refuses to run with IE5.5. Have I wasted my money? I'm not the only one who has noticed this; a search at Google Groups for "ie6 explorer.exe" gives over 400 results, mostly for this problem. X|
What OS are you on? Nish
I am the Keyboard Smasher
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What OS are you on? Nish
I am the Keyboard Smasher
I'm on Win2k Pro, but it probably doesn't matter. As I mentioned before, a search on Google Groups shows that a lot of people are having the same problem on 98, ME, 2K, and XP.
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Three times in the last five months I have installed IE6, then uninstalled it within a few minutes, because it breaks explorer.exe. Now I have a brand new copy of Visual Studio .NET, which refuses to run with IE5.5. Have I wasted my money? I'm not the only one who has noticed this; a search at Google Groups for "ie6 explorer.exe" gives over 400 results, mostly for this problem. X|
never had a problem like this. I knwo it mightn't make a different but see what happens when you install it in safe mode and try to run it them. Maybe ther eis something running in the background thats causing problems during the install.
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - General George S. Patton Jr.
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Three times in the last five months I have installed IE6, then uninstalled it within a few minutes, because it breaks explorer.exe. Now I have a brand new copy of Visual Studio .NET, which refuses to run with IE5.5. Have I wasted my money? I'm not the only one who has noticed this; a search at Google Groups for "ie6 explorer.exe" gives over 400 results, mostly for this problem. X|
IE6 caused chaos on my WinMe installation. resulting in a re-install of windows. It only seems to work well on XP. .NET or not .NET? MFC is the question......
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Three times in the last five months I have installed IE6, then uninstalled it within a few minutes, because it breaks explorer.exe. Now I have a brand new copy of Visual Studio .NET, which refuses to run with IE5.5. Have I wasted my money? I'm not the only one who has noticed this; a search at Google Groups for "ie6 explorer.exe" gives over 400 results, mostly for this problem. X|
Okay, here's what I did to track down the problem: 1. Re-install over existing installation: - Win2K - Service packs, critical updates, etc. - Miscellaneous software - Internet Explorer 6 RESULT: Windows Explorer still crashes constantly. :mad: CONJECTURE: Maybe some evil file is hanging around from earlier installations. Try again. 2. Format hard drive. Re-install: - Win2K - Service packs, critical updates, etc. - Miscellaneous software - Internet Explorer 6 RESULT: Windows Explorer still crashes constantly. :mad: CONJECTURE: Maybe IE6 conflicts with some other software that I depend on. Try again; this time, install the software in a different order. 3. Format hard drive. Re-install: - Win2K - Service packs, critical updates, etc. - Internet Explorer 6 - Netscape 4.78 RESULT: Windows Explorer crashes constantly. :mad: CONCLUSION: IE6 is incompatible with Netscape 4.x :(( HOWEVER: I un-installed Netscape. The problem persisted. :mad: Try again. 4. Format hard drive. Re-install: - Win2K - Service packs, critical updates, etc. - Internet Explorer 6 - Miscellaneous software, NOT INCLUDING NETSCAPE 4 RESULT: Everything works okay now. :) So, IE6 is incompatible with Netscape 4. Mozilla installs and runs without any problems, so I assume Netscape 6 would be okay also. I only kept Netscape around for one particular site, which I can live without. Mozilla and Opera have been my primary browsers for a while now. Those who are paranoid about Microsoft might suspect they deliberately planted a Netscape killer in their software. Others may ascribe the whole mess to incompetence. Certainly I expect better from Microsoft.